Faithfully Yours, Jessie Redmon Fauset
STORIES, POEMS & PERSONAL ESSAYS
As a writer, editor, mentor, and diplomat, Jessie Redmon Fauset was an essential, unwavering, and unsung force of the Harlem Renaissance. This volume celebrates Fauset’s exceptional and often overlooked talent as a writer with the first complete collection of her short fiction, poems, and personal essays published in Harlem Renaissance periodicals, anthologies, and literary journals. It includes all of the original illustrations!
This is the first meticulous and comprehensive collection of Jessie Fauset's writing. It includes all of Fauset's celebrated short stories, personal essays, and poems published between 1912 and 1929. Also included are the original story illustrations, a concise and accurate biography, biographical photos and documents, and an extensive bibliography.
Essential Short Stories
BY WOMEN OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE: VOLUMES 1 and 2
The best short stories by distinguished women writers—from those who have earned more widespread attention to those who haven’t yet but are just as deserving.
This informed and comprehensive collection combines the stories by women most admired during the Harlem Renaissance with those most studied since then.
Combination of Short-Take Essential Short Stories Volumes 1 and 2, plus four bonus stories.
21 short stories by 21 writers, including Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Angelina Weld Grimké.
The Saturday Evening Quill
STORIES, POEMS & PLAYS BY BOSTON'S WOMEN OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
The Harlem Renaissance wasn’t limited to Harlem.
Boston’s Saturday Evening Quill Club published its celebrated literary magazine, The Saturday Evening Quill, annually from 1928 to 1930. The three issues contain stories, poems, and plays by some of the most talented, prolific, and distinguished African American writers of the era. W.E.B. Du Bois said of The Saturday Evening Quill, “Of the booklets issued by young Negro writers in New York, Philadelphia and elsewhere, this collection from Boston is by far the most interesting and the best.”
This anthology celebrates the women of The Saturday Evening Quill. It includes illustrations by Lois Mailou Jones and the literary art of Helene Johnson, Edythe Mae Gordon, Alvira Hazzard, Gertrude Schalk, Florida Ruffin Ridley, Alice E. Furlong, Florence Marion Harmon, Marion G. Conover, Gertrude Parthenia McBrown, and Grace Vera Postles.
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PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS AND MORE ONE-ACTS BY WOMEN OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
The unique perspectives of the women of this dynamic era are demonstrated in their powerful plays. Many of these one-act plays were produced but never published—forever lost to modern readers. This comprehensive collection includes 20 one-act plays rescued from obscurity. Eleven of these won awards in the prestigious African American literary contests held between 1925 and 1927. Each is as poignant and pertinent as it was a century ago.
Plays by Zora Neale Hurston, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Marita O. Bonner, and more.
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UNTIL ETERNITY, ANGELINA WELD GRIMKÉ
Prose, Poems & Rachel, a Play
A passionate and prolific writer, Angelina Grimké’s impressive body of poetry focuses on love and longing. Her short stories, like her ground-breaking play, Rachel, are strong indictments of racial injustice.
This is a complete collection of Grimké's short stories and poetry published in periodicals and anthologies from 1900 to 1928. It includes her groundbreaking play, Rachel: a Play in Three Acts.
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PRIZE-WINNING STORIES, ESSAYS, PLAYS & POEMS BY WOMEN OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
A comprehensive collection of prize-winning stories, poems, plays & essays by women published during the Harlem Renaissance.
Includes an extensive history of the Literary Contests conducted by the periodicals The Crisis and Opportunity from 1925 until 1927 and the particular significance of the prize-winning women.